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I
have
the
good
fortune
of
being
able
to
spend
a
fair
amount
of
time
talking
to
business
leaders
about
the
value
of
Social
Business.
Increasingly
these
conversations
tend
to
break
down
into
3
major
groupings
of
value.
I
often
call
these
1st,
2nd
and
3rd
order
value
propositions.
For
the
most
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It
takes
a
tenacious
business
owner
to
hold
a
small
business
together
in
today's
economy.
But
sometimes,
tenacity
isn't
enough. In
fact,
small
and
midsize
business
owners
have
overwhelmingly
stated
that
the
biggest
inhibitor
to
growth
right
now
is
the
availability
of
financing
(or
lack
thereof).
Without
financing,
many
small
businesses
... [ + Read more ]

Can
you
really
get
lone-wolf
scientists
to
work
with
each
other?
Can
you
get
them
to
put
aside
their
egos
and
career
paths
to
create
something
that
could
change
the
world? You
can
if
you
did
what
David
Ferrucci
did.
Last
Sunday,
The
New
York
Times
ran
a
great
piece
by
... [ + Read more ]

Well.
That
was
an
interesting
few
days.Having
inadvertently
fried
my
motherboard
last
week,
I
found
myself
with
bit
of
extra
time
to
catch
up
on
my
reading.
Turns
out
I’ve
been
missing
a
lot.
Here's
the
first
batch...On
the
collaboration
front:
1.
Preparations
for
IBM
Lotusphere
and
IBM
Connect
continue
... [ + Read more ]

Happy
New
Year!
We're
back
at
it
after
a
much-appreciated
break,
and
with
two
weeks
to
go
before
IBM
Lotusphere
and
IBM
Connect,
I
thought
I'd
kick
off
the
year
with
another
exploration
of
the
benefits
of
being
social
-
and
the
those
of
a
social
business
-
courtesy
of
... [ + Read more ]

Happy
Social
Media
Day!
Today
is
the
day
"we
acknowledge
and
celebrate
the
revolution
of
media
becoming
social.
A
day
that
honors
the
technological
and
societal
advancements
that
have
allowed
us
to
have
a
dialogue,
to
connect
and
to
engage
not
only
the
creators
of
media,
but
perhaps
more
importantly,
... [ + Read more ]

Last
year,
IBM
launched
a
new
skills
initiative
to
help
it's
Business
Partners
get
started
with
social
media.
Fast
forward
to
2011,
and
the
company
is
taking
that
skills
initiative
to
a
whole
new
level,
with
an
upgraded
library
of
digital
assets,
as
well
as
a
number
of
face-to-face
... [ + Read more ]

The
IBM
Software
event
calendar
kicks
off
next
week
with
IBM Connect 2014.
With
a
focus
this
year
on
"Energizing
Life's
Work,"
the
premier
global
conference
dedicated
to
social
business
will
explore
the
ways
our
increasingly
interconnected
lives
and
businesses
continue
to
transform
both
work
and
play.
This
year,
you'll
also
find
the
... [ + Read more ]

IBM
announces
InterConnect
2012
at
Resorts
World
Sentosa,
Singapore
from
October
9-11,
2012.
Registration
is
now
open. Follow
us
on:
Twitter:
@IBMInterConnect
|
Facebook
|
Blog
In
this
era
of
interconnected
industries,
businesses
and
consumers,
a
new
kind
of
leadership
is
required
to
turn
opportunity
into
business
outcomes.
Smarter
businesses
are
capitalizing
... [ + Read more ]

IBM
officially
invites
you
to
InterConnect
2012
from
October
9-11
in
Singapore,
where
business
and
IT
leaders
partner
to
turn
opportunities
into
outcomes. In
the
video
below,
IBM
Vice
Presidents
Scott
Hebner
and
John
Dunderdale
explain
how,
on
today's
increasingly
smarter
planet--where
everything
is
becoming
more
interconnected,
instrumented,
and
intelligent--a
new
... [ + Read more ]

This
week
you're
bound
to
hear
a
lot
of
buzz
around
Analytics
&
Big
Data,
Mobile
Platform
and
Solutions,
Cloud,
Security,
Agility
Commerce,
and
Social
Business
due
the
IBM
TechForum
in
Bangalore,
India
on
August
9.
If
you'd
like
to
tune
into
the
conversations,
you
can
follow
#IBMTechForum
on
Twitter
... [ + Read more ]

Social
Media
Week
kicked
off
yesterday
amid
a
flurry
of
tweets,
tags
and
meetups
and
IBMers
were
well
represented
in
the
mix.
Fresh
off
a
successful
Lotusphere,
thousands
of
IBMers
around
the
world
added
their
voices,
ideas
and
insights
into
the
global
communications
revolution
through
the
#SMW12
tag.
Last
night,
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Hi.
Who
just
joined?Can
you
see
my
screen?
How
about
now?
No?
How
about
now?
Last
month
I
argued
that
IBM
was
ideally
positioned
to
become
a
social
business
because
IBMers
themselves
are
exceedingly
social.I
should
have
added
"funny."
Last
Thursday,
IBMers
Lindsey
Gremont
and
Megan
Moyer
started
the
weekend
fun
... [ + Read more ]

At
IBM
InterConnect
2012,
Business
and
IT
leaders
will
focus
on
a
very
popular
hot
topic
to
the
industry
today—how
to
speed
innovation
and
extend
reach
securely
with
mobile
enterprise.
To
learn
more
about
what
we
can
expect
to
see
around
Mobile
Enterprise
at
IBM
InterConnect
2012,
I
interviewed
Tracy
... [ + Read more ]

You
may
have
noticed
that
I've
been
on
a
bit
of
a
"social
business"
theme
lately,
what
with
McKinsey
reporting
on
companies'
successes
and
stumbles,
IBMers
trading
workplace
foibles
and
Lotusphere
2012
in
full
swing.
So,
here's
the
latest.
In
prepping
for
my
presentation
to
Social
Media
Breakfast
Ottawa
I
... [ + Read more ]